Lynnette Seah

Lynnette Seah is a Singaporean violinist.

Lynnette began her formal music training on the piano with her mother when she was five. She started the violin at the age of six with Goh Soon Tioe and later Alphonso Anthony.

Lynnette won scholarships that included one to the National Music Camp at Interlochen, Michigan USA when she was twelve. She was also awarded the Outstanding Young Musicians Award for being the youngest member of the World Youth Orchestra.

When she was 15, Lynnette was appointed as Associate Concertmaster of the Bishop Symphony Orchestra at the International Music Camp in Adelaide, Australia. That same year she represented Singapore in the Southeast Asian Violin Competition, and won a scholarship to study at the Hannover Hochschule for Music in Germany. Renowned violin teachers she had worked with included David Mankowitz of Toronto, Prof. Friedrich von Hausegger of Hannover, Prof. Karel Sneberger of Prague, Yfrah Neaman of London and Dorothy DeLay of New York.

As a soloist, Lynnette has performed with orchestras in Europe. Among them are Zurich Symphony Orchestra, Orebro Chamber Orchestra and Teplice Symphony Orchestra of Czechoslovakia, just to name a few. She has also performed regularly with Asian orchestras such as the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.

Having a wide range of repertoire, Lynnette has performed concertos by composers such as Bach, Beethoven, Bruch, Dvorak, Lalo, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Saint-Seans, Sibelius and Wieniawski. Lynnette has also performed the Bruch's Scottish Fantasy, Chen Gang and He Zhanhao's Violin Concerto "The Butterfly Lovers", Dvorak's Romance in F minor, Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole, Josef Suk's Fantasie, Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending, Chausson's Poem for Violin and Orchestra, and in January 2006, the world premier of Singaporean composer Benard Tan's Violin Concerto, a work which was written for her.

Lynnette has worked with a number of conductors who include Enrique Batiz, Michael Charry, Choo Hoey, Gaetano Delogu, Okko Kamu, Lan Shui, Lim Yau, Heiichiro Ohyama, Laurent Petitgirard, Ralf Sjobel and Samuel Wong.

An active recitalist, Lynnette has given recitals in Singapore, Indonesia and Hong Kong, where she performed an all-Beethoven recital. She was also invited to perform at the Bergen International Music Festival in Norway where she gave a recital. Lynnette Seah is also active in the chamber music scene. She is the the leader and founder of the Jade String Quartet, which toured China in 2001.

In April 1996, Lynnette was invited to represent Singapore in the World Philharmonic Orchestra at Bangkok, Thailand, for the King’s 50th Anniversary of his ascension under the baton of Maestro Myung-Whun Chung. She was appointed as assistant concertmaster then. In June 2006, Lynnette will once again represent Singapore in the World Philharmonic Orchestra at Paris, France. Other than that, Lynnette will also play with an orchestra from Switzerland in May 2006.

Lynnette is currently an associate concertmaster of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, which she is a founding member and was acting concertmaster at the orchestra's inception in January 1979.